La Ferrassie Cave
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Location
Les Eyzies

Country
France

Year of Research
35,000 years before

Culture
  • It is a very huge rock shelter in the Les Eyzies region of the Perigord, Dordogne Valley, France.
  • This place has number of Upper and Middle Paleolithic occupations, including Mousterian, Chatelperronian, Aurignacian, and Perigoridian.
  • The site has been interpreted as the deliberate burial of eight individuals, two adults and six children, all of whom are Neanderthals, and dated to the Aurignacian, approximately 35,000 years before the present.
  • One skeleton in particular called La Ferrassie I is one of the most complete Neanderthal skeletons yet preserved, and it exhibited advanced age 40-55 years.





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